Monday, March 12, 2012

Dickens' Marian vision

"It wore a blue drapery, as the Madonna might in a picture by Raphael"

Or dream, or was it rather a dream of his recently deceased sister in law? It happened in Venice, where Dickens was staying near a convent, the bells of which tolled throughout the night. I'd never heard of this incident; the estimable Dr. Oddie has more here.

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Servant of God John Hardon, SJ Prayer for the Beatification and Canonization of Father John Hardon Almighty God, You gave Your servant, Father John Anthony Hardon of the Society of Jesus, the grace of religious and priestly consecration after the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Through Father Hardon, You provided for your Flock an extraordinary teacher of the faith. You entrusted Father Hardon into the loving care of the Blessed Virgin Mary whose counsel, "Do whatever he tells you" (Jn 2:5) he faithfully followed and whose intercession he unceasingly invoked. If it be Your holy will, please grant the request I now make, calling upon the help of Father Hardon,so that his heroic sanctity may be recognized in the whole Church. I ask this through Your Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who with You and the Holy Spirit, is one God forever and ever.

About Me

Inigo Hicks grew up in Hicksville, New York, and is a proud graduate of St. Ignatius Loyola School and Hicksville Senior High School. He lives with his family in New Jersey, where he sometimes attends a Traditional Latin Mass three towns away. He likes this much better than the Novus Ordo Mass said in English at his parish church a block from his house.